December 31st, 1964

December 31st, 1964...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "I Feel Fine" by The Beatles In the UK: "I Feel Fine" by The Beatles

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Dr. Paul Carlson

(TIME Cover: December the 4th, 1964)

Famous people born on the 31st of December:

1378 - Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)
1491 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)
1514 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
1572 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617)
1830 - Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (d. 1895)
1869 - Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954)
1937 - Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
1942 - Andy Summers, British musician (The Police)
1943 - Ben Kingsley, English actor
1948 - Donna Summer, American singer
1951 - Tom Hamilton, American musician (Aerosmith)
1963 - Scott Ian, American musician (Anthrax)

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964

Jean-Paul Sartre
1905-1980

for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age

France

Photo: nobelprize.org

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1964 (USA)
	$0.54

Oscar of the best picture in 1964

My Fair Lady
directed by George Cukor
with Rex Harrison (Professor Henry Higgins), Stanley Holloway (Alfred P. Doolittle) and Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Higgins)

Designed in 1964

The Telephone 'Grillo'
by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper

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